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The New Walford

其他書名	Guide to Reference Resources
出版	Facet Pub., 2005
ISBN	18560449559781856044950
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=YeVUx2ivbQwC&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋The New Waldorf guide to science, technology, and medicine (STM) reference resources has a short sub-title 'belongs on every reference desk' and this sums up the general value of the volume nicely. For a bibliographer caught in between recent analogue past and entirely digital future of our rapidly developing 'information world' the pleasure of holding this substantial guide to the guides is close to ecstasy. The quality of print and design of the book is remarkable, the paper of high quality, the structure, lay-out and explanations transparent, the possibilities of browsing and searching as good as one can get in the printed reference book. One can only admire the diligence and commitment of the team involved in production of this book (the editor-in-chief, sixteen subject specialists, software specialists and editors). It covers the reference sources in science, technology and medicine produced both in printed and digital format. The changed and changing information environment is seriously taken into account by the authors. The impact of it on the reference work and resources is both discussed in introduction and visible in selection and presentation of the material. The whole range of resource categories included in the guide is displayed on the p. xviii as the elements constituting the 'information universe'. This could be criticised as a very simplistic picture, but it also has a pragmatic function to explain the grouping of the material within subject categories and fulfils it in a very satisfactory manner. In general all the introductory texts in the New Waldorf are well written and easy to read. They are genuinely aimed at the targeted audience of the 'newcomers' to the subjects and reference tools of STM. The same is true of all the aspects of the guide. (EDITOR).